Cabinet Date: 12 November 2012 Subject:
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Cabinet Date: 12 November 2012 Subject:
Cabinet Date: 12 November 2012 Subject: Financial Monitoring Report 2012/13 – September 2012 Lead officer: Paul Dale Lead member: Mark Allison Recommendations: A. That Cabinet note the projected revenue budgetary control position, showing a forecast underspend at year end of £5.196m after a transfer of £631,000 to the capital financing reserve. (£5.819m underspend reported last month); the capital position and an update on corporate items and consider any relevant action that they wish to take in respect of variations. B. That Cabinet approve the re-profiling contained in appendices 5a to c summarized below: Reprofiling from 2012/13 CCTV Match Funding £0.14m to 2013/14 Waste Phase B £0.20m to 2013/14 Rep of Cfirst/Contingency £0.971m to 2013/14 IT Transformation Unallocated £0.49m to 2013/14 Other Civic Centre Windows £0.05m to 2012/13 £3.00m to 2013/14 £1.45m fm 2014/15 £1.60m fm 2015/16 c) That Cabinet recommends to Council the creation of a new scheme by virement: From Redundancy Payments £1.0m 1. 2 1.1 0 to Acquisitions £1.0m PURPOSE OF REPORT AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the regular financial monitoring report for 2012/13 presented to Cabinet in line with the financial reporting timetable. It is the expenditure and income as at 30th September 2012. 3 This financial monitoring report provides:- -1- 7 • • • The latest budgetary control information on revenue expenditure and income, forecasting a year end underspend of £5.196m (£5.819m underspend reported last month); An update on the capital programme and detailed monitoring information; An update on Corporate Items in the budget 2012/13; 4 5 2. 2012/13 FORECAST OUTTURN BASED UPON LATEST AVAILABLE DATA 2.1 Executive summary - As at September, the forecast is expected to be a net £5.196m underspend compared to the current budget (£5.819m underspend reported last month). This report reviews the 2nd quarter of the financial year and identifies the important areas where financial management and corrective action is being focused. 6 Summary Position as at 30th September 2012 Department 3A.Corporate Services 3B.Children, Schools and Families 3C.Community and Housing 3D.Environment & Regeneration NET SERVICE EXPENDITURE 3E.Corporate Items Impact of Capital on revenue budget Transfer to Capital financing reserve Transfer to Closing the Gap Reserve Central budgets Levies TOTAL CORPORATE PROVISIONS TOTAL GENERAL FUND FUNDING Grants Council Tax and Collection Fund FUNDING NET Forecast Variance at year end (Sept.) £000s Forecast Variance at year end (Aug.) £000s Original Budget 2012/13 £000s Current Budget 2012/13 £000s Full Year Forecast (Sept.) £000s 10,256 42,366 60,223 28,008 140,853 10,534 42,124 60,134 27,708 140,500 10,741 42,779 58,772 27,946 140,238 207 655 -1,362 238 -261 110 535 -1,451 -510 -1,319 14,080 14,080 13,449 -631 -602 0 0 631 631 602 5,738 5,738 5,738 0 0 -5,983 -5,630 -10,565 -4,935 -4,500 880 880 880 0 0 14,715 15,068 10,133 -4,935 -4,500 155,568 155,568 150,371 -5,196 -5,819 -68,888 -86,680 155,568 -68,888 -86,680 155,568 -68,888 -86,680 155,568 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -5,197 -5,196 -5,819 The spending position is after transfers to and from reserves which are included above. A detailed table is provided as Appendix 1. -2- 8 The following table shows the summary actual and projected position for September, in subjective format. Expenditure Employees Premises Related Expenditure Transport Related Expenditure Supplies and Services Third Party Payments Current Budget 2012/13 Year to Date Budget (Sept) Year to Date Actual (Sept) Full Year Forecast (Sept) Forecast Variance at year end (Sept) £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 85,920 42,806 42,946 86,721 801 8,900 5,130 3,670 8,701 (200) 10,824 4,782 4,922 11,300 476 155,459 76,985 69,702 154,586 (873) 83,567 39,805 37,255 83,858 291 112,589 4,590 4,410 112,653 65 Support Services 33,744 347 12 33,743 (1) Depreciation and Impairment Losses 13,920 17 0 13,920 1 Corporate Provisions 15,068 2,902 925 10,133 (4,935) 519,991 177,363 163,841 515,616 (4,376) (258,191) (7,978) (7,518) (258,373) (182) Transfer Payments GROSS EXPENDITURE Income Government Grants Other Grants, Reimbursements and Contribs Customer and Client Receipts Interest Recharges Balances GROSS INCOME NET EXPENDITURE (15,712) (5,127) (4,313) (15,702) 10 (52,427) (23,497) (24,535) (53,102) (675) (44) 0 0 (44) 0 (0) (35,323) (529) (364) (35,323) (2,726) (1,680) (1,700) (2,701) 25 (364,422) (38,811) (38,430) (365,245) (823) 155,569 138,552 125,411 150,371 (5,196) -3- 9 Chart 1 below shows the forecast year end variance for departmental expenditure with a comparison against 2011/12. Service Expenditure - Forecast Year End Variance 2,000 1,000 0 £'000 March February January December November October September August July June May -1,000 Service Expenditure 12/13 Service Expenditure 11/12 -2,000 -3,000 -4,000 -5,000 -6,000 Chart 2 shows the forecast year end variance for corporate provisions with a comparison against 2011/12. Corporate Provisions - Year End Forecast Variance 0 February January December November October September August July June May -1,000 £'000 -2,000 12/13 FY Forecast -3,000 11/12 FY Forecast -4,000 -5,000 -6,000 -4- 10 Charts showing the forecast year end variance for each department with a comparison against 2011/12 are attached as Appendix 8. The table below shows the extent of the reduction in forecasts for each period to the 11/12 year end. Service Departments need to ensure their current year projections are substantially more robust than was the case in 2011/12. Variance Reported in 2011/12 Budget £'000 JUL £'000 AUG £'000 SEP £'000 OCT £'000 NOV £'000 DEC £'000 JAN £'000 FEB £'000 OUT- TURN £'000 9,021 309 17 -583 -583 -625 -652 -739 -781 -975 9,173 18,194 -13 296 -1,097 -1,080 -1,126 -1,709 -1,126 -1,709 -1,012 -1,637 -1,030 -1,683 -1,093 -1,832 -1,088 -1,869 -1,646 -2,621 12,544 -300 -300 -400 -170 -309 -344 -747 -799 -1,129 54,733 -462 -462 -492 -1,683 -1,693 -2,254 -2,556 -2,726 -2,864 85,471 -466 -1,842 -2,601 -3,562 -3,639 -4,281 -5,135 -5,394 -6,614 58,537 -944 733 536 115 -186 -695 -1,264 -849 -542 144,008 -1,410 -1,109 -2,065 -3,447 -3,825 -4,976 -6,399 -6,243 -7,156 3,000 2,002 2,135 2,135 2,135 1,887 1,889 1,889 2,025 1,590 893 70 -1,312 -1,690 -3,089 -4,510 -4,354 -5,131 Waste Operations Waste Services Total Waste Children’s Social Care Adult Social Care Total Big 3 Other Services Total Redundancy Total 144,008 The table below shows the forecast variation for the same services in the current year Variation in forecast against budget 2012/13 £'000 -282 -54 -875 June £'000 July £'000 Aug £'000 Sep £'000 -860 -26 -1,344 -783 150 -1,028 -935 362 -1,206 -698 327 -1,153 -1,211 -2,230 -1,661 -1,779 -1,524 May Total Waste Children’s Social care Adult Social care Variation on "Big 3" Other departmental expenditure Variation from budget -5- 96 -440 325 460 1,263 -1,115 -2,670 -1,338 -1,319 -261 11 7 3. DEPARTMENTAL SUMMARY OF CURRENT POSITION (A) Corporate Services Department 2012/13 Current Budget Full year Forecast September Forecast variance at year end (Sep) Forecast variance at year end (Aug) 2011/12 Variance at year end £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 Business Improvement Infrastructure & Transactions 1,821 1,821 0 49 47 8,974 8,936 (38) (47) Resources 7,074 7,044 (30) 4 71 (122) Human Resources 1,797 2,003 205 148 (51) Corporate Governance 4,407 4,366 (42) 5 (140) 403 728 326 299 29 1,184 969 (215) (348) 1,700 25,660 25,867 207 110 1,534 Customer Services Corporate Items including redundancy costs Total (controllable) Overview At period 6 the Corporate Services department is forecasting an overspend of £207k. 8 The main variances are summarised in the table below. Aug Budget Sept forecast forecast variance variance £000 Human Resources School’s SLA Agilisys contract costs Other costs £000 £000 (444) 349 1,892 156 91 (42) 146 91 (57) Total Human Resources variance Customer Services Corporate Communications Income Shortfall on recovery of court costs Underachievement of bailiff’s income Other costs 1,797 205 148 (199) 112 112 1,030 100 0 (887) 237 237 459 (123) (50) Total Customer Services variance 403 326 299 Human Resources (HR) – forecast overspend £205k -6- 12 The payroll service provided by Agilisys is forecasting an overspend of £91k. This is due to 30% of the workforce requiring paper payslips which results in an additional unbudgeted cost and the requirement of the business objects module of the iTrent system. There is also a shortfall on the Schools SLA income due to a reduction in the price of the SLA to provide a competitive market rate. The previous SLA was priced at a cost per post not employee, which also results in lower income as several employees in schools hold more than one post. Both of these factors, together with a small reduction in buyback, are the reason for the forecast shortfall in SLA income of £156k. This overspend is partially offset by an underspend in Learning and Development training. The HR managers are addressing the above overspend by holding vacancies where possible, reviewing the structure of the Central Operation Team and reviewing the pricing of all Schools SLA. A clear strategy for balancing these budgets for 2013/14 is needed. Customer Services – forecast overspend £326k The Corporate Communications sponsorship, advertising and filming income is expected to show a shortfall of £112k. An underachievement of income of £237k is expected on Bailiffs income. The Bailiffs shared service with Sutton commenced in August but is now not expected to generate additional income until 2013/14. A £100k shortfall is projected on recovery of court costs. The costs recovered to date are £155k down on the same time last year. This is partly due to the reduction in the number of court dates since transferring from Wimbledon to Richmond Magistrates court. We have only been given one hearing per month and at Wimbledon we could have two in the early part of the year. The above forecast overspends are partly offset by forecast overachievement of income in the Registrars office (£50k) and an underspend on some vacant posts (£100k Infrastructure and Transactions– forecast underspend £38k The main reasons for the underspend are an overachievement of income on the Alto Digital recharges of £65k and an additional £35k on recovery of overpayments. These are offset by a forecast overspend on print room costs due to a fall in demand. Corporate Items – forecast underspend £215k The forecast underspend is due to lower redundancy costs. Management Action Budget managers are working closely with finance officers to reduce spend where possible to address the above cost pressures. -7- 13 (B) Children, Schools and Families Children, Schools and Families (Non-DSG) Commissioning, Strategy and Performance Education Social Care and Youth Inclusion PFI Redundancy costs Total excluding overheads 9 2012/13 Current Budget Full year Forecast (as at Sep) £000 £000 Forecast Variance at yearend (as at Sep) £000 Forecast 2011/12 Variance at Variance yearend at yearend (as at Aug) £000 £000 7,645 9,965 7,723 10,227 78 262 99 86 (135) (11) 11,613 6,941 2,019 11,940 6,941 2,007 327 0 (12) 362 0 (12) (1,115) 22 150 38,183 38,838 655 535 (1,089) Overview As at the end of Period 6 Budget managers are forecasting a net overspend of £655k on local authority funded services. DSG funded services are forecast to underspend but these budgets are not within the council’s general fund and underspends cannot be offset against overspends on General Fund budgets. 10 Local Authority Funded Services The key variances are shown in the following table. Description Budget Independent fostering and residential placements (ART) Various other small over and underspends Subtotal Commissioning, Strategy and Performance Direct and Discretionary payments SEN and FE transport Various other small over and underspends Subtotal Education Special guardianship orders Section 17 Staffing Various other small over and underspends Subtotal Children’s Social Care and Youth Inclusion Subtotal PFI Subtotal Redundancy cost Grand total Children, Schools and Families -8- 14 £,000 4,971 2,674 7,645 231 2,917 6,817 9,965 112 36 612 10,853 11,613 6,941 2,019 38,183 Variance September £,000 102 -24 78 130 61 71 262 188 112 54 -27 327 0 -12 655 Variance August £,000 113 -14 99 86 0 0 86 188 0 125 49 362 0 -12 535 Heads of service across all three divisions of CSF manage a number of volatile budgets, which require continuous and careful demand management. Significant cost pressures and underspends identified to date are detailed below: Commissioning, Strategy and Performance Division • Pressure on fostering and residential placement costs continue as a result of the nature of cases. The net position includes ongoing pressures in independent agency fostering and placements for looked after children, offset by underspends on in-house fostering and mother and baby budgets, amounting to some £102k. The Access to Resources model has been applied and robust negotiations have delivered 110k of savings since April 2012 split almost evenly between residential and IFA placements. However over the same period the average weekly cost of a placement has increased from £2,801 to £3,072 in Sept 2012, partly because of the need to make 2 very specialist placements. High cost placements are being closely monitored and step down options will be considered when appropriate. We are piloting the care calculator which is expected to deliver lower cost rates from providers over time. • There are various other small over and underspends predicted across the division totalling £24k underspend. This, combine with the significant items described above, equals the reported Divisional overspend forecast of £78k. . Education Division • The SEN and Disability integrated service is forecasting overspends of £130k on their direct and discretionary payments due to increased numbers of clients reflecting rising numbers of children with complex needs. • SEN and FE transport cost are expected to overspend by £61k due to the increased number of service users. Work with E&R delivered unit cost reductions and streamlined routes to deliver savings. However, this is another service area which is subject to demographic growth pressure as a result of increasing client numbers. A review of our policy has been undertaken as well as proposals to deliver savings for the MTFS which are currently being consulted on. The draft policy went to CYP Scrutiny last month. • There are various other small over and underspends predicted across the division totalling £71k overspend. This, combine with the significant item described above, equals the reported Divisional overspend forecast of 262k. Work is underway to continue to improve budget management here. -9- 15 Children’s Social Care and Youth Inclusion • Due to an increase in the number of special guardianship orders, this budget is expected to overspend by £188k by the end of the year. £52k of this overspend will be one-off because it relates to a backdated outcome of an external review. • The Section 17 budgets are forecast to overspend by £112k for the current financial year. This is due to increased demand in the Access and Assessment, Children in Need, and 16 plus teams. These costs include “no recourse to public funds” (NRTPF) cases, which will be offset by underspends on unaccompanied asylum seekers grant income. • Various sections are expecting staffing pressures due to increased caseloads and agency staffs cover. This is expected to overspend by £54k. • Commissioning savings at Leyton Road are expected to result in an overall underspend for the year of £60k. • Adoption allowance costs have increased to secure appropriate placements for young people with complex needs, resulting in an expected overspend of £40k. • Recovery of costs through the unaccompanied asylum seekers grant is expected to generate a £62k underspend. This budget will be required for NRTPF cases, which are currently included under the Section 17 cases and forecasted to overspend (see above). Virements will be done next month to realign these budgets and offset the over and underspend. • Cost pressures of £81k are arising during 2011/12 relating to maternity cover. • There are various other small over and underspends predicted across the division totalling £26k underspend. This, combine with the significant item described above, equals the reported Divisional overspend forecast of £327k. • Changes to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offender (LASPO) Act 2012 coming into force in December 2012 will introduce a new remand framework. Financial responsibility for remands to youth detention accommodation will transfer from the Youth Justice Board (YJB) to Local Authorities. The current funding transfer proposal from the YJB to the LA to fund this transfer is not sufficient to cover the expected cost. This proposal is in its consultation stage but the department is anticipating a cost pressure for part of this year which could lead to further overspending in the current year. It is not possible to estimate the full-year effect of this pressure for 2013/14 as it is dependant on the number of placements, which is unknown, and the funding transfer which is still under consultation. • Work is underway to continue to improve budget management here. Dedicated Schools Grant Based on current client costs, independent residential SEN placements are expected to underspend. The current client costs do not build in contingencies for new assessments during the year or new - 10 - 16 starters from September. A more accurate underspend estimate; excluding the possibility of any tribunal cases, will be provided for October budget monitoring. Implementing the strategy to increase in-borough SEN provision is delivering reduced spend on out of borough placements, and increased income from other boroughs, by charging for out of borough children placed in Merton schools. Initial forecasts indicate a net underspend on these recoupment activities, which will be quantified once the most of the claims are received from other boroughs. This will be quantified for October budget monitoring. Management Action CSF DMT regularly review spend across the board and have ”deep dive” reviews of volatile budgets such as SEN Transport and C&YP placements budgets across education and social care. The ART service is working to negotiate down the costs of Individual placements and work with consortium partners continues including piloting the care cost calculator. Work is being targeted to prevent high cost interventions where possible. Early intervention and prevention services are being reviewed to ensure maximum impact and best use of the resources available. CSF managers are working closely with finance staff to continue to make forecasting more robust, and will continue to reduce spend where possible to address cost pressures that arise throughout the year. (C) Community and Housing As at end of September, C&H is forecast to under-spend by £1.363m. Community and Housing Access and Assessment Commissioning Direct Provision Directorate Adult Social Care Libraries and Heritage Merton Adult Education Housing General Fund Total (controllable) 2012/13 Current Budget Full Year Forecast (Sep) Forecast Variance (Sep) Forecast Variance (Aug) 2011/12 Variance at year end £000 40,806 £000 39,740 £000 (1,066) £000 (1,030) £000 (1,643) 5,239 4,832 847 51,724 2,471 (12) 1,263 55,446 5,054 4,929 847 50,570 2,493 (12) 1,031 54,082 (184) 97 0 (1,153) 22 0 (232) (1,363) (154) (22) (0) (1,206) 22 0 (267) (1,451) (698) (463) (62) (2,866) 8 107 (391) (3,142) The main variances to report are summarised below, the majority of the under-spend is income. Placements budget is over-spending, but at this stage this is offset by other under-spends within A&A. - 11 - 17 Budget Client Contribution PCT Contribution Total over-achievement of Income Miles Re-ablement Service Other A&A Net under-spends Gross Placements over-spend Total A&A under-spend Other C&H under-spend TOTAL FORECAST UNDERSPEND C&H (Sep) Forecast Variance (Sep) Forecast Variance (Aug) £000 (7,970) (2,297) (10,267 2,653 9,955 38,465 40,806 14,640 £000 (893) (139) (1,032) (202) (365) 533 (1066) (297) £000 (895) 204 (691) (191) (152) 3 (1031) (420) 55,446 (1,363) (1451) Commissioning The projected under spend in Commissioning of £184k is due to under-spend of the supporting people grant £88k, reduction in the contribution to Voluntary Organisation contracts and grants of £40k salaries due to delay in recruitment £56k Direct Provision is forecast to overspend by £97k. Mainly due to additional staff required at Glebelands and new service at Haselmere Avenue. There is also additional income from a full cost client Housing The projected under spend is caused by preventing homelessness forecast under-spend on rent deposits, repossession and eviction £232k. This is an area where spend to date suggests that the under spending may well be greater. Libraries £22k forecast over-spend that will need action to contain within existing budgets. Merton Adult Education (MAE) is forecast to breakeven, however given the need to implement a package of savings and a track record of overspending in recent years this needs to be viewed with some caution at this stage, unless firm management action is taken. MAE have been awarded a growth bid of £55k from the Skills Funding Agency with the possibility of more to come, in recognition of the service exceeding the targets set for it by the SFA. The budget for the new academic year is being re-profiled. Overview Placements The total gross placement budget for 2012/13 is £38.465m; this includes £1m growth allocated in setting the budget and savings of £3.5m. - 12 - 18 The impact of the savings on the budget position for 2012/13 and future years is being monitored closely. The table below identifies the movement in care package numbers: Total Yearly Commitment @ Sep 12 £000 Increase/ decrease since Budget Setting No of Care Packages as at October 2011 (budget setting £000 179 No of Care Packages as at Sep 2012 177 (2) £1,640 Physical and Sensory 278 275 (3) £3,659 Learning Disabilities 357 371 14 £12,271 1,681 1647 (34) £20,348 7 8 1 £209 22 19 (3) £243 2,524 2,497 (27) £38,998 Activity Data – Care Package Numbers Service Area Mental Health 11 Older People Substance Misuse 12 13 No recourse to public funds Other Placement Expenditure TOTAL FORECAST UNDERSPEND A&A £628 Pressures Based on current packages within care-first , gross placement expenditure budget is forecast to over-spend by £533k at Period 6, which broadly equates to the saving taken against the budget in this area for 2012/13. Trend analysis of placement expenditure over the last 5 financial years, indicates that placement expenditure increases by an average of 1.62% between September and the end of the financial year. It is estimated that spend on Adult Social care placements may increase by £630k, especially due to winter pressures. A meeting has been scheduled with the PCT to discuss transfer of resources and to develop this year’s framework for agreement and sign-off .The S256 agreement is required from NHS London as part of the governance process. This is particularly important with winter pressures ahead of us and the need to reduce demand on Hospital capacity and confirm funding available. The net impact of this needs to be modelled. Management Action to date Adult Social Care Managers have been requested to review the placement expenditure data with a view to improving the accuracy of the forecast. Housing General Fund The Temporary Accommodation budget is being reviewed by the budget manager. The forecast for temporary accommodation does not seem to be fully consistent with actual spend to date as all invoices have not been accounted for. At the same time last year the Adult Social Care budget was forecast to underspend by £492,000. The actual under spent in 2011/12 was £2.9m. This broadly splits as £1.4m for additional income and £1.5m for lower expenditure. £800,000 of unbudgeted income was taken towards balancing the budget in 2012/13. The actual extent of continuing under spending is currently being investigated by the Director. The current adult social cares forecast underspend of £1.363m includes an estimated £0.893m - 13 - 19 overachievement of income. It is important that as one of the major contributors to recent under spending that the extent of any structural budgetary overprovision is clarified and dealt with through the future budget setting process. - 14 - 20 (D) Environment & Regeneration Public Protection & Development (PP&D) Sustainable Communities Street Scene & Waste Safer Merton 2012/13 Current Budget £'000 -6,281 3,170 24,937 963 Full year Forecast (Sept) £'000 -6,047 3,466 24,677 931 Forecast Variance (Sept) £'000 234 296 -260 -32 Forecast Variance (Aug) £'000 197 0 -708 0 2011/12 Variance £'000 -95 235 -2,533 -45 Total Excluding Overheads 22,789 23,027 238 -511 -2,438 14 Description 2012/13 Current Budget £000 15 Forecast Variance at year end (Sept) £000 395 (93) (68) 234 174 192 77 (124) (23) 296 298 (289) (669) (123) 16 17 21 25 29 33 37 41 45 49 53 57 61 65 69 73 Shortfall in Building & Development Control income Employee underspend within Parking Services Other Total for Public Protection & Development Shortfall in Greenspaces income Shortfall in Property rental income Premises related costs Employee underspend within Senior Mgnt & Support Other Total for Sustainable Communities Employee overspend within Waste Services Reduced transport sla costs within Waste Services Reduced SLWP related costs General Supplies & Services underspend within Waste Services Shortfall in Waste Services income – principally Commercial Waste 18 22 26 30 34 38 42 46 50 54 58 62 66 70 74 77 81 85 89 93 97 Employee overspend within Traffic & Highways Reduction in ability to capitalise expenditure Transport Services Other Total for Street Scene & Waste Employee related underspend Shortfall in income Other Total for Safer Merton 1 01 1 05 1 09 Total Excluding Overheads (1,972) 2,330 (6,639) (6,281) (1,661) (3,439) 267 872 7,131 3,170 7,170 2,433 8,708 772 19 23 27 31 35 39 43 47 51 55 59 63 67 71 (2,359) 1,475 (691) (66) 7,495 24,937 1,101 (76) (62) 963 75 78 98 1 02 1 06 1 10 22,789 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 254 245 252 57 (285) (260) (77) 44 1 (32) 83 86 94 20 24 76 79 82 90 Forecast Variance at year end (Aug) £000 316 (73) (46) 197 56 162 103 (128) (193) 0 (106) (274) (495) (129) 84 87 91 95 96 1 00 1 03 1 04 1 07 1 08 1 11 238 463 (167) 23 (253) (708) (44) 44 0 0 88 92 99 1 13 230 80 1 12 1 14 (511) Overview The Department is currently forecasting an overspend of £238,000 at year end. There are seven main areas of variance –Traffic & Highways, Building & Development Control, Greenspaces, and Property Management are forecasting overspends whilst Waste Services, Parking Services, and Senior Management & Support are forecasting an underspend. 1 15 - 15 - 21 Some of the reported variances this month reflect more intensive analysis for the period six return. They do require even more detailed analysis which is underway, and the Director is meeting with budget holders to investigate the changed position. Improvements in budget monitoring are being made and the position in respect of savings is under review. 1 16 Public Protection & Development Building and Development Control An overspend of £370k is currently being forecast, which is mainly due to the section being unable to fully implement an agreed saving of £300k. The saving relates to a Government proposal which would allow the Council to set its own fees (levels are currently prescribed) in order to recover the full cost of delivering a number of services within the section. However, the Government has delayed this proposal and no agreement has been made as to when it might be announced. The section has also recently seen a fall in application fee income received. It may be that this partly relates to d to the Ministerial Statement to relax the requirement for planning consent in certain classes of development, where those who may no longer require permission assess their situation. However, this pressure is expected to be partially offset by the fact that the DCLG have recently proposed a one-off adjustment to up-rate planning application fees in line with inflation amounting to around 15%, as the Government, who set the fee, have not been increased it since 2008. It is anticipated that this increase will take effect from October, and could result in an additional £50k of income during this financial year above that currently forecast. The resolution of the bulk of this saving has been deferred into 2014/15 at the cabinet meeting of 22nd October This forecast overspend is being partially mitigated by underspends elsewhere within the PP&D division, especially within Parking Services where an employee underspend is expected. Sustainable Communities Property Management The Property Management section is currently forecasting a shortfall in rental income of around £192k, as a result of several void properties during the year. Also, as a result of these void lets, the section is also liable to pay the related NNDR, security and any repair costs required. Mitigating action is being taken to address this pressure, for example, ensuring the vacant units are in a good state of repair, resulting in six units being re-let since June and two units being under offer. However, the section often needs to agree a rent free period of up to six months in order to secure the lease agreements and, although the better presentation of the units is helping to reduce the length of the rent free periods necessary, this will result in limited additional income this financial year. Officers are working on mitigating action in order to bring the budget back into balance for 2013/14. Greenspaces The section is currently forecasting a shortfall in income of around £174k, principally in internment fees which is forecasting a £126k shortfall, mainly as a result of 2012/13 savings relating to additional income - 16 - 22 not being achieved. Action is being proposed to address the overspend, including looking at costs and how they can be contained, as well as ways to increase income. Internment income is partly seasonal in nature and the coming months will indicate whether this forecast is overly pessimistic or not. This has highlighted the need for a strengthening of budget management in this activity. An update on the position will be included in future monitoring reports once it is clearer what can be achieved. In the short-term, this forecast overspend, coupled with the overspend forecast within property Management, are being partially offset by underspends elsewhere within Sustainable Communities, principally within the Senior Management and Support section. Waste Services The section is currently forecasting an overall underspend of £698k, which is mainly due to a reduction in expected transport related costs, and a reduction in the levels of residual waste being taken to landfill. This compares to an underspend of £2.6M in the previous financial year, but their respective budgets have been reduced by around £1.2M for this financial year. 1 However, there is notable pressure relating to Commercial Waste, where an income shortfall of around £256k is forecast based on current projections. This compares to an overspend of £278k in 2011/12. A review of the commercial waste business and the operating model has recently completed and reported and the action plan to reduce cost and increase income is being finalised. The saving related to 6 day working is proposed to be replaced with a saving of similar value achieved by some double shifting of refuse collection rounds both residential and commercial. Traffic & Highways The section is currently forecasting an overspend of £381k for two main reasons. Firstly, there has been a delay in the introduction of the London Permit Scheme due to a delay in the approval from the Department for Transport. At this stage, it is estimated that the delay will be approximately three months, meaning that the section will only receive three months of related income rather than the expected six. Secondly, due to a clearer understanding of actual patterns of expenditure the section is able to charge a lower level of highways maintenance spend than it anticipated to Capital. Safer Merton This section is not forecasting an overspend or underspend. Issues have arisen in regards to existing CCTV contracts that may put additional pressures on the budget, and are being worked through at present. However, this pressure is expected to be mitigated by staffing underspends, mainly as a result of maternity leave, recent agreements to reduce hours and difficulty in recruiting staff. 1 17 Management Action Action is being taken to improve budget management in some areas and to bring the budget back into balance. - 17 - 23 12 9 (E) Corporate Items These budgets cover a wide range of significant areas including treasury management, contingency, contributions to past service deficiency on the pensions fund and contributions from government grants and use of reserves. The assumptions underpinning budgets and projected outturn are contained in Appendix 1 and 2. The main areas of variance as at 31st September 2012 are:- 3E.Corporate Items Cost of Borrowing Investment Income Council 2012/13 £000s Original Budget 2012/13 £000s 14,481 -401 14,481 -401 14,080 4,537 1,335 5,337 -14,816 -1,136 14,080 4,537 1,334 4,095 -14,813 -1,136 Central Items Levies -4,743 881 -5,983 880 Appropriation to Reserves TOTAL CORPORATE PROVISIONS 5,738 15,956 5,738 14,715 Impact of Capital on revenue budget Pension Fund Pay and Price Inflation Contingencies and provisions Depreciation and Impairment Income Items Forecast Forecast Variance Variance Current Full Year at year at year Budget Forecast end end 2012/13 (Sept.) (Sept.) (Aug.) £000s £000s £000s £000s 14,481 -401 14,080 13,879 -401 13,478 --631 0 --631 -602 0 -602 4,537 1,334 4,030 -14,233 -1,136 4,537 426 1,070 -14,233 -2,203 0 -908 -2,960 0 -1,067 0 -908 -2,525 0 -1,067 -5,468 880 5,738 15,230 -10,403 880 6,340 10,295 -4,935 0 631 -4,935 -4,500 0 602 -4,500 Details of forecast variances have been provided in previous monitoring reports and are shown in Appendix 2 The only major change in September is a reduction of £435,000 in the forecast use of corporate contingency. This assumes that expenditure of up to £0.500m will be available as cover for the remainder of this financial year. A small change in the impact of capital on the revenue budget has resulted from the latest capital programme monitoring information. - 18 - 24 4. CAPITAL PROGRAMME 2012-16 4.1 The table below summarises the position in respect of the Capital Programme as at September 2012: Merton - September 2012 Capital Monitoring Information Department Total Budget YTD Actual YTD Budget Variance to Date Forecast For Year Forecast Variance Community and Housing 1,408,090 364,598 375,606 (11,008) 1,108,800 (299,290) Corporate Services 5,173,370 1,068,761 1,740,662 (671,901) 4,970,318 648 Children Schools and Families 31,230,730 16,318,652 13,332,358 2,986,294 28,569,365 (2,061,365) Environment and Regeneration 15,042,320 4,115,448 5,565,011 (1,449,564) 14,338,870 (666,450) Total Capital 52,854,510 21,867,459 21,013,637 853,821 48,987,353 (3,026,457) 5.1 The scheme level programme is attached as Appendix 5a. 5.2 There have been the following movements in budget since the report submitted last month: August Department Monitoring Community and Housing Corporate Services Increase/ (Decrease) Total Budget 2,379,090 (971,000) 1,408,090 5,613,370 (440,000) 5,173,370 Children Schools and Families 31,230,730 0 31,230,730 Environment and Regeneration 15,693,410 (651,090) 15,042,320 Total Capital 54,916,600 (2,062,090) 52,854,510 i) ii) Community and Housing – Replacement of Carefirst budgets of £971,000 have been reprofiled into 2013/14. This is detailed in Appendix 5b. Corporate Services – There are two changes to the programme a) £1,000,000 redundancy budget for 2012/13 is being vired into an Acquisitions budget, this new tranche of money will be held corporately rather than by Environment and Regeneration. b) Civic Centre windows have been re-profiled forward in the programme due to health and safely concerns. The changes to the overall programme are detailed in Appendix 5b. c) Transformation Unallocated £490,000 has been re-profiled to 2013/14 - 19 - 25 iii) 5.3 Environment and Regeneration – Officers have a) re-profiled nineteen schemes totalling £672,090 into 2013/14, b) one scheme of £16,000 has been removed from the programme, and c) one scheme of £37,000 for a Beach Volleyball Court in Wimbledon Park has been added funded by grant from Sport England. These adjustments are detailed in Appendix 5b. The Table below shows the movement in the corporate capital programme for 2012/13 since it’s approval at March 2012 Council: Approved Cabinet March 2012 Department Slippage from 2011/12 ReProfiling from 2012/13 Additional External Funding New Internally Funded 0 769 0 4,796 1,740 (922) Children Schools and Families 33,214 6,885 (13,905) 4,175 0 Environment and Regeneration 14,602 3,466 (3,498) 298 827 Total Capital 52,612 12,860 (18,325) 6,083 827 Community and Housing Corporate Services 5.4 1,610 Schools Contribu tions August Monitoring Report Increase / (Decrease) Sept. Monitoring Report 0 2,379 (971) 1,408 0 5,614 (440) 5,174 31,230 0 31,230 15,695 (651) 15,044 54,918 (2,062) 52,856 861 861 The table below summarises the impact of the re-profiling and virements in 5.3 on the Capital Programme 2012-16. Impact of Re-Profiling and Virements on the Capital Programme 2012-16 Dept Starting Budget 2012/13 Changes Revised Budget 2012/13 C&H CS CSF E&R (1) £000s 2,379 5,614 31,230 15,694 (2) £000s (971) (440) 0 (651) (1+2)= (3) £000s 1,408 5,174 31,230 15,043 Total 54,917 (2,062) 52,855 5.5 Starting Budget 2013/14 Chan ges Starting Budget 2013/14 0 4,084 25,536 17,720 (5) £000s 971 3,490 0 669 (4+5)= (6) £000s 971 7,574 25,536 18,389 47,340 5,130 52,470 (4) £000s Original Budget 2014/15 Changes Starting Budget 2014/15 (7) £000s (8) £000s 0 4,376 13,090 10,086 0 (1,450) 0 0 (7+8)= (9) £000s 0 2,926 13,090 10,086 27,552 (1,450) 26,102 Appendix 5c updates the funding of the capital programme for 2012/13. - 20 - 26 Original Budget 2015/16 Changes Revised Budget 2015/16 (10) £000s (11) £000s 0 4,057 4,165 15,946 0 (1,600) 0 0 (10+11)= (12) £000s 0 2,457 4,165 15,946 24,168 (1,600) 22,568 5.6 The Table below compares spend to September for the financial years 2011/12 to 2012/13 and will be updated each month: Comparison of Capital Spend September 2011 to September 2012 Department Community and Housing Corporate Services Children Schools and Families Environment and Regeneration Spend to September 2011 486,951 2,133,101 8,862,532 9,066,487 Spend to September 2012 364,598 1,068,761 16,318,652 4,115,448 20,549,071 21,867,459 Total Capital Spend Variance to Date (122,353) (1,064,340) 7,456,120 (4,951,039) 1,318,388 i) ii) Corporate Services have only spent 50% of the spend achieved last year Environment and Regeneration – considerable officer activity has been directed at the Olympics and certain restrictions on activity have been in place over the Olympic period. This has impacted on their spend this year. 6. RISK MANAGEMENT 6.1 Attached as Appendix 6 is the updated Key Strategic Risk Register for October 2012. Disappointingly only one risk has reduced and all other key strategic risks have remained the same. 6.2 As part of the Authority’s Insurance arrangements the Authority has £20,000 per annum to spend on Risk related training with specialist staff within our insurers. Officers have met with representatives from Zurich and identified the following training which will be delivered before the end of the financial year: £ Two Member Training Sessions 3,000 Corporate Risk Management Group Training 3,000 Review of Departmental Risk Registers 20,000 --------Total 26,000 6.3 The timing and content of the training is currently under review. - 21 - 27 7. DELIVERY OF SAVINGS FOR 2012/13 7.1 The savings proposed for 2012/13 of £11.229m are shown below: 2012/13 £000 SAVINGS Corporate Services 2,414 Children, Schools and Families 1,003 Environment and Regeneration 3,562 Community and Housing 4,250 TOTAL 11,229 The savings expected to year end are reported in Appendix 7. 8. CONSULTATION UNDERTAKEN OR PROPOSED 8.1 All relevant bodies have been consulted. 9. TIMETABLE 9.1 In accordance with current financial reporting timetables. 10. FINANCIAL, RESOURCE AND PROPERTY IMPLICATIONS 10.1 All relevant implications have been addressed in the report. 11. LEGAL AND STATUTORY IMPLICATIONS 11.1 All relevant implications have been addressed in the report. 12. HUMAN RIGHTS, EQUALITIES AND COMMUNITY COHESION IMPLICATIONS 12.1 Not applicable 13. CRIME AND DISORDER IMPLICATIONS 13.1 Not applicable 14. RISK MANAGEMENT AND HEALTH AND SAFETY IMPLICATIONS 14.1 The content of this report is linked to two Key Strategic Risks Developing Corporate Business Plan and Setting a Balanced Budget for 2013/17 and Beyond (KSR49) and Delivery of Savings Programme 2012/15 - 22 - 28 15. APPENDICES – THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS ARE TO BE PUBLISHED WITH THIS REPORT AND FORM PART OF THE REPORT Appendix 1 – Detailed monthly position table Appendix 2 – Detailed Corporate Items table Appendix 3 – Pay and Price Inflation as at June 2012 Appendix 4 – Treasury Management: Outlook Appendix 5a – Current Capital Programme 2012/13 Appendix 5b – Capital Programme Virements September 2012 Monitoring Appendix 5c – Capital Programme 2012/13 Funding Statement Appendix 6 – Key Strategic Risk Register Appendix 7 - Savings expected in 12/13 Appendix 8 – Forecast year end variance by department Appendix 9 – Movement on reserves Appendix 10 – Cash flow (to follow) 1 26 1 27 16. BACKGROUND PAPERS 16.1 Budgetary Control files held in the Corporate Services department. 17. REPORT AUTHOR − Name: Paul Dale 1 18 − − 1 19 1 20 Tel: 020 8545 3458 email: paul.dale@merton.gov.uk - 23 - 29 1 21 Budget as per March Council 2012/13 Original Budget 2012/13 £000s £000s Current Budget 2012/13 Year to Date Budget (Sept.) Year to Date Actual (Sept.) £000s £000s £000s APPENDIX 1 Full Year Forecast (Sept.) Forecast Variance at year end (Sept.) Forecast Variance at year end (Aug.) £000s £000s £000s Department 3A.Corporate Services 8,329 10,256 10,534 12,880 11,397 10,741 207 3B.Children, Schools and Families 42,296 42,366 42,124 90,268 84,045 42,779 655 110 535 3C.Community and Housing 60,107 60,223 60,134 26,545 23,090 58,772 -1,362 -1,451 3D.Environment & Regeneration 28,889 28,008 27,708 5,957 5,954 27,946 238 -510 NET SERVICE EXPENDITURE 139,621 140,853 140,499 135,650 124,486 140,238 -261 -1,319 14,080 14,080 14,080 3,076 2,494 13,449 -631 -602 0 0 0 0 0 631 631 602 5,738 5,738 5,738 0 0 5,738 0 0 -4,743 -5,983 -5,630 -614 -2,009 -10,565 -4,935 -4,500 881 15,956 880 14,715 880 15,068 440 2,902 440 925 880 10,133 0 -4,935 0 -4,500 155,577 155,568 155,568 138,552 125,411 150,371 -5,196 -5,819 3E.Corporate Items Impact of Capital on revenue budget Transfer to Capital financing reserve Transfer to Closing the Gap Reserve Other Central items Levies TOTAL CORPORATE PROVISIONS TOTAL GENERAL FUND Funding Formula Grant: - NNDR -58782 -58782 -58782 -29391 -29391 -58782 0 0 - RSG -1179 -1179 -1179 -590 -590 -1179 0 0 - Council Tax Freeze Grant 2011/12 -2060 -2060 -2060 -1030 -1030 -2060 0 0 - Council Tax Freeze Grant 2012/13 PFI Grant -2078 -2070 -2070 -2070 -2070 -2070 0 0 Grants Collection Fund -4797 -4797 -4797 -2398 -2398 -4797 0 0 -68,896 -68,888 -68,888 -35,479 -35,479 -68,888 0 0 -3891 -3891 -3891 0 0 -3891 0 0 -82522 -82522 -82522 0 0 -82522 0 0 -267 -267 -267 0 0 -267 0 0 -86680 -86680 -86680 0 0 -86680 -155,576 1 -155,568 0 -155,568 0 -35,479 103073 -35,479 89932 -155,568 -5197.41 0 0 Council Tax - General - WPCC Council Tax and Collection Fund FUNDING NET - 24 - 30 Current Budget 2012/13 £000s Year to Date Budget (Sept.) £000s Year to Date Actual (Sept.) £000s Full Year Forecast (Sept.) £000s Forecast Variance at year end (Sept.) £000s Forecast Variance at year end (Aug.) £000s 14,481 -401 14,080 14,481 -401 14,080 3,243 -167 3,076 2,641 -147 2,494 13,850 -401 13,449 -631 0 -631 -602 0 -602 4,537 4,537 4,537 0 0 4,537 0 0 408 927 1,335 408 926 1,334 408 926 1,334 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 426 426 -408 -500 -908 -408 -500 -908 Contingency Single Status Bad Debt Provision Cost of DR Recovery Agency workers Cost of disposals - 4% Revenuisation and miscellaneous Contingencies and provisions 2,000 515 500 70 500 0 2,000 515 500 70 500 0 1,935 515 500 70 500 -162 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 0 500 70 0 -162 -1,435 -515 0 0 -500 0 -1,000 -515 0 0 -500 0 1,752 510 510 0 0 0 -510 -510 5,337 4,095 3,868 0 0 908 -2,960 -2,525 New Homes Bonus Local Services Support Grant LACSEG refund VAT Savings Income Items -1,136 -1,136 -1,136 -614 -614 -1,136 0 0 0 0 0 -1,136 0 0 0 -1,136 0 0 0 -1,136 0 0 0 -614 -347 -471 -578 -2,010 0 -471 -596 -2,203 0 -471 -596 -1,067 0 -471 -596 -1,067 -14,816 -14,813 -14,233 0 0 -14,233 0 0 9,337 8,097 8,450 2,462 485 2,884 -5,566 -5,102 881 880 880 440 440 880 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 631 631 602 Budget as per Council 2012/13 £000s Original Budget 2012/13 £000s 14,481 -401 14,080 Pension Fund Corporate Provision for Pay Award Utilities Inflation Provision Pay and Price Inflation APPENDIX 2. Corporate Items Cost of Borrowing Investment Inc. Impact of Capital on revenue budget Depreciation and Impairment Central Items Levies - Financing costs: saving transferred to reserves - Use of Reserves - re 20 minutes free parking - Transfer to Closing the Gap Reserve Approp to/from Reserves -30 -30 -30 0 0 -30 0 0 5,768 5,738 5,768 5,738 5,768 5,738 0 0 0 0 5,768 6,369 0 631 0 602 TOTAL CORPORATE PROV. 15,956 14,715 15,068 2,902 925 10,133 -4,935 -4,500 - 25 - 31 1 22 1 23 Appendix 3 Pay and Price Inflation as at September 2012 In 2012/13, the MTFS includes 0.5% for increases in pay and 1.5% for increases in general prices, with an additional amount of £0.332m for extra inflation provision in Community and Housing for those areas of high inflation. 1 24 Pay: 2012/13 – The MTFS approved by Council on the 7th March 2012 includes 0.5% for increases in pay. This equates to £0.408m and is held as a corporate provision. It is not expected that this will be required. Prices: CPI annual inflation stands at 2.2 per cent in September 2012, down from 2.5 per cent in August which is the lowest rate since November 2009, when it was 1.9 per cent. The largest downward pressures came from the housing and household services sector (particularly utility costs). Increases in transport costs, particularly motor fuels, recreation and culture, and miscellaneous goods and services offset this to an extent. RPI annual inflation stands at 2.6 per cent in September 2012, down from 2.9 per cent in August. There were similar reasons for the changes as for CPI. Outlook for inflation: On 4 October, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to maintain the Bank Base Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to continue with its programme of asset purchases totaling £375 billion, financed by the issuance of central bank reserves. The Committee expects the announced programme of asset purchases to take another month to complete. The scale of the programme will be kept under review. The minutes of the MPC meeting noted that “inflation was a little above the 2% target, and was likely to remain so in the near term. The outlook for inflation further out would depend not only on whether demand recovered but also on whether that was accompanied by a recovery in productivity.” The latest inflation forecasts for the UK economy, based on a summary of independent forecasts are set out in the table below:Source: HM Treasury - Forecasts for the UK Economy (September 2012) 2012 (Quarter 4) CPI RPI Lowest % 1.5 1.8 Highest % 2.7 3.1 Average % 2.1 2.6 2013 (Quarter 4) CPI RPI Lowest % 1.5 1.7 Highest % 3.3 3.6 Average % 2.0 2.5 The MPC continue to judge that there is a significant margin of spare capacity in the economy, particularly the labour market which should continue to help the downward inflationary pressure in the UK for some time to come. However, an increasing oil price means that the inflation rate will fall more slowly than previously thought due to its impact on utility and food prices. - 26 - 32 Clearly where the level of inflation during the year exceeds the amount provided for in the budget, this will put pressure on services to stay within budget and will require effective monitoring and control. The Autumn Statement 2012 will be made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 5 December 2012. The Statement will provide an update on the Government’s plans for the economy based on the latest forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. These forecasts are published alongside the Autumn Statement on 5 December 2012. - 27 - 33 1 25 1 28 Appendix 4 Treasury Management: Outlook The Bank Base Rate has been kept at its low of 0.5% since March 2009. Forecasts for interest rates are that they will remain low for some time, until at least mid/late 2013. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee on 4 October 2012 voted to maintain the official Bank Base Rate at 0.5%. The MPC also voted to maintain the level of Quantitative Easing (QE) at £375billion financed by the issuance of central bank reserves. The minutes of the MPC meeting on3/4 October commented that “there were, as ever, limits to what monetary policy could be expected to achieve. The Committee discussed the likely effectiveness of further asset purchases, should they be required. Some members felt that there was still considerable scope for asset purchases to provide further stimulus. Other members, while acknowledging that asset purchases had the scope to lower long-term yields further, questioned the magnitude of the impact that lower long-term yields on corporate debt and equity would have on the broader economy at the present juncture…. But there was agreement that there was little to be gained at this meeting in changing the current programme of asset purchases. The Committee would have the opportunity to gauge the impact of past and prospective policy actions at home and abroad over the next month, in the context of preparing its forecasts for the November Inflation Report.” Forecasts for Bank Base Rates, based on September 2012 are summarised in the following table:End End End End End End End End Q.1 Q.2 Q.4 Q.2 Q.3 Q.1 Q.4 Q.3 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2013 2012 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% Sector Capital Economics UBS 0.5% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% 0.25% Interest rate projections have become more dovish with most economists putting back their timescales for when rates are expected to increase. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sharply cut its forecasts for Britain's economy from slight growth this year to a 0.4pc contraction. Britain's goods trade deficit widened more than expected to £9.8bn, as exports fell and oil imports rose, and its total trade deficit - which includes buoyant services exports rose to £4.17bn, the second highest on record. Industrial output, which includes energy production and mining, fell 0.5pc on the month in August, in line with expectations, after a 2.8pc rise in July. Therefore, the overall picture remains of an extremely weak economy with a deterioration in public finances, driven by lower tax receipts, which is a good reminder of the uphill challenges the UK still faces. For this reason, it is possible that the MPC will extend its quantitative easing (QE) programme by another £50bn possibly as soon as November when the MPC next meets. Markets remain wary about the situation in Europe and this uncertainty shows little sign of dissipating. There is also a risk of a sharper slowdown in emerging economies. Wage pressures in the UK have remained subdued and output growth remains weak despite relatively strong employment growth. - 28 - 34 Appendix 5a Community and Housing Capital Monitoring - September 2012 Scheme Description Total Budget Adult Social Care YTD Actual Variance To Date YTD Budget Forecast For Year Forecast Variance 368,000 0 0 0 368,000 0 33,940 0 16,974 (16,974) 26,610 (7,330) Adult Education and Community 145,340 111,647 70,838 40,809 124,380 (20,960) Housing 860,810 252,951 287,794 (34,843) 589,810 (271,000) 1,408,090 364,598 375,606 (11,008) 1,108,800 (299,290) Forecast For Year Forecast Variance Libraries Total Community and Housing Total Corporate Services Capital Monitoring - September 2012 Scheme Description Resources Business Improvement Total Cloud Computing Total Budget YTD Actual Variance To Date YTD Budget 203,700 14,504 0 14,504 0 0 85,530 14,052 39,430 (25,378) 85,530 0 297,780 31,825 149,136 (117,311) 297,780 0 Corporate Items 1,000,000 0 0 0 1,000,000 0 Facilities Management Total 1,012,570 367,185 436,178 (68,993) 1,012,571 1 IT Total 2,573,790 641,195 1,115,918 (474,723) 2,574,437 647 0 0 0 0 0 0 5,173,370 1,068,761 1,740,662 (671,901) 4,970,318 648 IT Transformation Unallocated Corporate Services Total - 29 - 35 Appendix 5a Children, Schools & Families Capital Monitoring - September 2012 Scheme Description Total Budget YTD Actual YTD Budget Variance Forecast Forecast To Date For Year Variance Aragon Expansion 994,460 558,774 497,564 61,210 979,619 (14,841) BENEDICT PRIMARY SCHOOL EXP 820,780 753,630 351,892 401,738 824,031 3,251 Cranmer Expansion 611,400 63,736 414,560 (350,824) 150,000 (461,400) School expansion 19FE to 25FE 290,000 263,549 120,336 143,213 290,926 926 Hollymount Primary School Exp Joseph Hood Primary School Exp William Morris PCP Holy Trinity Expansion St Mary's expansion Pupil Growth - Unallocated 647,820 380,077 241,382 138,695 655,611 7,791 2,707,450 1,648,008 1,295,634 352,374 2,701,081 (6,369) 434,390 281,367 187,020 94,347 434,390 0 264,370 0 111,354 (111,354) 100,000 (164,370) 1,209,770 540,276 737,550 (197,274) 1,009,190 (200,580) 305,850 193,477 141,840 51,637 280,850 (25,000) All Saints/ South Wim YCC exp 1,567,670 1,005,731 684,859 320,872 1,567,000 (670) Gorringe Park expansion 2,120,850 1,610,437 909,262 701,175 3,092,837 971,987 Hillcross School Expansion 530,780 123,511 193,128 (69,617) 440,000 (90,780) Merton Abbey Temp Accommodation 354,360 11,178 564,930 (553,752) 200,000 (154,360) Pelham School Expansion 420,010 179,645 62,380 117,265 150,005 (270,005) Cricket Grn Exp-Chapel Orchard 200,000 4,785 83,336 (78,551) 200,270 270 Dundonald expansion 331,940 58,127 31,638 26,489 100,000 (231,940) Poplar Permanent Expansion 371,130 254,752 129,678 125,074 302,050 (69,080) Liberty expansion 2,308,560 1,414,567 987,614 426,953 2,188,560 (120,000) Singlegate expansion 4,504,990 3,440,150 1,322,581 2,117,569 4,379,690 (125,300) Wimbledon Park expansion 2,040,510 485,961 886,924 (400,963) 2,040,510 0 Beecholme Expansion 350,000 0 42,857 (42,857) 0 (350,000) St Ann's Primary Phase 283,310 199,439 82,546 116,893 467,233 183,923 Wimbledon Chase Expansion 185,390 25,368 114,614 (89,246) 185,368 (22) 23,855,790 13,496,545 10,195,479 3,301,066 22,739,221 (1,116,569) - 30 - 36 Appendix 5a Children, Schools & Families Capital Monitoring - September 2012 Scheme Description Total Budget YTD Actual YTD Budget Variance To Date Forecast For Year Forecast Variance Devolved Formula Capital 519,810 182,520 229,242 (46,722) 519,810 0 St Ann's - Targeted Capital 652,450 157,372 326,296 (168,924) 468,527 (183,923) St Anns - Primary 10,610 7,796 5,240 2,556 10,610 0 Early Years 76,960 7,846 37,214 (29,368) 59,500 (17,460) CSF General 0 0 0 0 0 0 Garden PCP 1,789,580 864,851 790,042 74,809 1,711,774 (77,806) 51,530 0 25,132 (25,132) 51,530 0 250,000 216,863 100,000 116,863 250,000 0 3,680 7,830 2,634 5,196 3,680 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schools Access Initiative Inc Bishop Gilpin New Classroom St Thomas of Canterbury Expnsn Hollymount Joseph Hood Abbotsbury-playgrnd Improvemts 0 0 0 0 0 0 30,000 0 12,336 (12,336) 30,000 0 Schools Capital M&A Links PCP St Mark's Primary PCP SS Peter & Paul PCP Poplar PCP Extended schools 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,910 13,821 3,762 10,059 13,821 2,911 0 1,320 0 660 (660) 1,320 142,290 134,378 71,148 63,230 142,290 0 2,070 0 1,038 (1,038) 0 (2,070) 20,390 0 10,194 (10,194) 20,390 0 Primary Capital Programme 7,530 0 3,852 (3,852) 7,530 0 School kitchens/dining areas 43,620 41,017 21,810 19,207 43,620 0 St Ann's Primary Phase 58,740 58,740 58,740 0 58,740 0 Cricket Green Site 24,420 23,028 10,666 12,362 24,420 0 Behaviour Unit 60,910 23,132 25,154 (2,022) 60,910 0 1,700 0 728 (728) 1,700 0 Hillcross Unit Primary school autism unit 580,000 0 242,047 (242,047) 30,000 (550,000) Brightwell 299,960 253,908 137,101 116,807 299,960 0 Short Breaks Disabled Children 106,900 105,092 53,630 51,462 105,089 (1,811) Primary Capital Improvements 584,230 129,321 263,377 (134,056) 525,422 (58,808) Play Spaces Former Royal Sun Alliance SG Secondary Expansion Secondary Improvements Schools Loans 10,420 694 5,208 (4,514) 7,200 (3,220) 500,680 361,365 250,340 111,025 500,680 0 50,000 0 20,836 (20,836) 0 (50,000) 134,750 132,141 67,374 64,767 132,141 (2,609) 1,100,000 0 250,002 (250,002) 500,000 0 Schools IT Youth Centres Children Schools and Families 0 0 0 0 0 0 249,480 100,392 111,076 (10,684) 249,480 0 7,374,940 2,822,107 3,136,879 (314,772) 5,830,144 (944,796) 31,230,730 16,318,652 13,332,358 2,986,294 28,569,365 (2,061,365) - 31 - 37 Appendix 5a Environment and Regeneration Capital Monitoring - September 2012 Scheme Description Total Budget YTD Actual YTD Budget 511,586 Footways Planned Works 1,023,170 382,680 Greenspaces 1,837,390 544,713 Highways General Planned Works 1,038,850 219,771 Highways Planned Road Works 1,600,000 290,402 506,260 100,524 1,504,330 Leisure Centres Other E&R Variance To Date Forecast For Year Forecast Variance (128,906) 1,000,000 (23,170) 914,150 (369,437) 1,547,640 (289,750) 496,989 (277,218) 962,550 (76,300) 800,002 (509,600) 1,600,000 0 316,054 (215,531) 506,260 0 87,864 592,627 (504,763) 1,334,330 (170,000) On and Off Street Parking 194,380 43,393 99,342 (55,949) 102,290 (92,090) Plans and Projects 147,580 109,147 13,104 96,043 132,580 (15,000) Regeneration Partnerships 367,790 8,990 (721,606) 730,596 191,700 (176,090) Street Lighting 640,000 (39) 211,000 (211,039) 640,000 0 Street Scene 706,760 140,175 396,266 (256,091) 646,970 (59,790) 2,306,560 369,370 416,155 (46,785) 1,903,270 (403,290) 219,100 65,726 186,990 (121,264) 525,100 306,000 Transport and Plant 767,130 552,811 277,268 275,543 805,110 37,980 Safer Merton - CCTV & ASB 104,100 16,624 145,884 (129,260) 254,560 150,460 Transport for London Traffic and Parking Management Environmental Health 1,000,970 530,357 570,420 (40,063) 990,970 (10,000) Waste Operations 1,077,950 652,940 338,780 314,160 1,232,540 154,590 15,042,320 4,115,448 5,565,011 (1,449,564) 14,375,870 (666,450) Environment and Regeneration - 32 - 38 Total Corporate Services Civic C-Windows Redundancy Payments Acquisitions IT Transformation Unallocated Corporate Services 1000000 (490,000) 0 490000 - 33 - (440,000) 50,000 (1,000,000) 0 1,000,000 £ 1,490,000 £ Revised 2012/13 Budget 0 0 0 £ 0 0 0 2012/13 Budget 971,000 71,000 900,000 £ Virements 971,000 71,000 900,000 £ Revised 2012/13 Budget 1,050,000 0 1,000,000 0 50,000 £ Revised 2012/13 Budget 0 490,000 0 500,000 3,490,000 0 500,000 3,000,000 0 £ Virements 0 £ 2013/14 Budget 3,990,000 990,000 0 0 3,000,000 £ Revised 2013/14 Budget 2,100,000 500,000 0 0 1,600,000 £ 2014/15 Budget (1,450,000) (1,450,000) £ Virements CAPITAL VIREMENTS AND REPROFILING SEPTEMBER 2012 MONITITORING (971,000) £ 971,000 TOTAL (71,000) (900,000) Virements 71,000 2012/13 Budget 900,000 Contingency £ £ Adult Social Care Replacement of Carefirst Virements 2012/13 Budget CAPITAL VIREMENTS AND REPROFILING SEPTEMBER 2012 MONITITORING Community and Housing 39 650,000 500,000 0 0 150,000 £ Revised 2014/15 Budget 2,100,000 500,000 0 0 1,600,000 £ 2015/16 Budget (1,600,000) (1,600,000) £ Virements 0 0 0 500,000 500,000 £ Revised 2015/16 Budget Appendix 5b TFL Casualty reduction and schools TFL Cycle improvements Transport for London Shop from improvement S106 Street scene improvement Street Scene Solar PV panel near Morden Park Plans and Projects River Wandle Footbridge Haydons Road Highways General Planned Works Beach Volleyball B650 Rowan Road Park Improvement Greenspaces TOTAL Waste Phase B Waste Operations CCTV Match Funding CCTV Raynes Park Relocation of Cameras 50 & 52 Safer Merton - CCTV &ASB Network Rail Wimbledon town centre transport improvements Transport and Plant Wandle Road 20mph Eastfield Area 20mph High Parth Area (20mph Scheme) Parkway area (20mph) Pelhams Road area 20mph LBPN Design costs Traffic and Parking Management - 34 - 1,633,020 850,000 8,150 2,310 (688,090) (200,000) (140,000) (2,310) (8,150) 944,930 650,000 0 0 74,930 0 (42,490) 42,490 214,930 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70,000 150,000 0 0 0 0 0 37,000 0 (9,400) (3,500) (6,340) (6,000) (2,940) (1,010) (26,850) (50,000) (30,000) (24,840) (22,350) (16,000) (35,520) (57,330) 37,000 £ Revised 2012/13 Budget 9,400 26,850 1,010 2,940 6,000 6,340 3,500 100,000 200,000 22,350 24,840 16,000 57,330 35,520 0 (3,060) £ £ 3,060 Virements 2012/13 Budget 0 0 0 1,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,000 £ 2012/13 Budget 672,090 200,000 140,000 2,310 8,150 42,490 9,400 3,500 6,340 6,000 2,940 1,010 26,850 50,000 30,000 24,840 22,350 0 35,520 57,330 0 3,060 £ Virements CAPITAL VIREMENTS AND REPROFILING SEPTEMBER 2012 MONITITORING Environment and Regeneration 40 673,090 200,000 8,150 2,310 140,000 42,490 9,400 26,850 1,010 2,940 6,000 6,340 3,500 30,000 50,000 22,350 24,840 0 58,330 35,520 0 3,060 £ Revised 2012/13 Budget Appendix 5b Appendix 5c CAPITAL PROGRAMME FUNDING SUMMARY 2012/13 Funded from Funde Merton’s d by Resource Grant s £000s £000s Current Capital Programme 2012/13 October 2012 Cabinet Community & Housing Replacement of Carefirst Corporate Services Roll forward of Civic Centre Windows Transformation Unallocated Environment & Regeneration Greenspaces B650 Rowan Road Park Improvement Beach Volleyball Highways General Planned Works River Wandle Footbridge Haydons Road Plans and Projects Solar PV panel near Morden Park Street Scene Shop front improvement S106 Street scene improvement Transport for London TFL Casualty reduction and schools TFL Cycle improvements Traffic and Parking Management Wandle Road 20mph Eastfield Area 20mph High Parth Area (20mph Scheme) Parkway area (20mph) Pelhams Road area 20mph LBPN Design costs Transport and Plant Network Rail Wimbledon town centre transport improvements Safer Merton - CCTV & ASB CCTV Match Funding CCTV Raynes Park Relocation of Cameras 50 & 52 Waste Operations Waste Phase B Current Capital Programme 2012/13 November 2012 Cabinet - 35 - 29,131 25,785 Total £000s 54,916 0 (971) (971) 50 (490) 0 0 50 (490) (3) 0 0 37 (3) 37 (36) 0 0 (57) (36) (57) 0 (16) (16) 0 0 (25) (22) (25) (22) 0 0 (50) (30) (50) (30) 0 0 (6) (3) (1) (27) (4) (6) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (9) (42) (4) (6) (6) (3) (1) (27) 0 (9) (42) (140) (2) (8) 0 0 0 (140) (2) (8) (200) 0 (200) 28,265 24,590 52,855 41 KSR47 / IT02 KSR21 / RE03 Risk No Cause SWL waste partnership Safety of Staff KSR09 42 KSR31/ ER09 Staff security Inadequate supervision & management of public areas Impact on method and time it takes to award contracts to suppliers. Adverse budget and service implications if not done correctly in adherence to PCRs 2006, such as court imposed stopping of contracts. Slower delivery of savings, service benefits & development of skills & experience of staff takes longer. Consequences Failure to protect staff Member of staff could be injured or killed; impact on morale of other staff; open to claims of negligence; potential financial loss PHASE A: 1) Beddington AD Plan. Contact risk owner for more information 2) Indexation method. Contact risk owner Contact risk owner for more information for more information PHASE B: 1)Contact risk owner for more information Inadequate security for staff, Coucillors and MP's Lack of awareness in departments that procurement/purchasing is a tightly Failure to adhere to regulated area of council activity. Public Contract Furthermore insufficient capacity (staff, Regulations 2006 experience, knowledge & budget) in departments and corporate Procurement Team. Short Name Key strategic Risk Register October 2012 3 3 2 4 4 3 2 3 Impact Likelihood 12 9 4 12 Risk Score A A A A J J L J R AGK J L RAG Directio Statu n of s travel Simon Williams / Dean Shoesmith Cormac Stokes Mark Humphries Simon Williams Risk Owner Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Andrew Judge Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison See comments Managed by the Joint Waste Committee CMT have now agreed for a united system, PVP (potentially violent person) and other systems can be integrated. A meeting has been planned for reps to start discussing the detail. Risks managed through the Joint Waste Committee sense checked July 2012 SIA and physical intervention training has now been Risk will always be a factor and is completed by managed by systems and staff training Building Services & Security Staff Procurement Board Action Plan Portfolio (Y/N) / Review Comment regarding review Holder date Appendix 6 Data loss Safe recruitment practices School places KSR07 / HR02 KSR34 / CSF5 Short Name KSR004 / CG06 Risk No Changing Borough Demographics Safeguarding children Single status Terms & conditions KSR35 / CSF1 KSR42 / HR09 KSR44 / HR13 43 KSR55 / CSF4 3 Primary school expansion programme may be insufficient to increase capacity to Increase in birth-rate and numbers of meet demand. Need to consider additional children reaching primary age locally, with provision. Also future risk that increase in 3 subsequent impact on demand for numbers will flow through to secondary secondary and special school places. system such that demand for places will exceed supply. Impact of review of T&Cs & ongoing staffing reductions 4 3 Cost of settlement; cost of litigation & resources to contest; impact on staff morale; reputational & political impact Impact on staff morale, recruitment & cost implications 3 Child protection and safeguarding issues including possible child death. Impact on reputation and political consequences. There could be an increase in high cost interventions. Difficulties recruiting experienced social workers. High turn over of existing staff. The potential for less effective interagency working. Changed expectations and updated regulatory framework. Ongoing budget pressures could undermine the Merton Model. Post single status challenge Additional demand for school places, and services for children with special educational needs and disabilities, as well 5 as pressure for growth in children’s social care and child protection interventions. Increases in both the total population in the borough, including in particular families with young children, and also in the mix of the population with respect to ethnicity, disability and deprivation. 3 2 4 2 4 3 3 Inappropriate person may get a role they shouldn't; vulnerable children and adults may be at risk as a consequence Failure of systems to ensure inappropriate staff are not recruited Accidental loss by staff or hacking 4 Consequences Harm to service users, through breach of privacy or loss of services, reputation & financial impact on council (up to 500K) Cause Key strategic Risk Register October 2012 Impact Likelihood 12 6 12 10 9 12 12 Risk Score A A A A A A A J J J J J J J R AGK J L RAG Directio Statu n of s travel Dean Shoesmith Dean Shoesmith Theresa Leavey Paul Ballatt Yvette Stanley / Paul Ballatt Dean Shoesmith Karin Lane Risk Owner Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Maxi Martin Cllr Maxi Martin / Cllr Martin Whelton Cllr Martin Whelton Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison HR service plan Single Status LSCB Business Plan & CYPP Commissioning strategy & performance service plan Commissioning strategy & performance service plan N/A - see comments Project 3. Split ballot outcome will require a return to the negotiating table for 2013/14 Single status review project is underway to complete those staff groups that had not previously been reviewed under single status agreement Major review undertaken of personal files & employment records to ensure safe recruitment practice in place with recent Good Ofsted outcome. Corporate Project 7 - see also governance service Information Governance policy plan Action Plan Portfolio (Y/N) / Review Comment regarding review Holder date Appendix 6 Staff Health & Safety IT systems KSR46 / IT01 KSR48 / IT03 3 2 4 Failure to provide accurate performance data Failure to evidence how equalities Reputational impact for council, risk of implications have been considered in judicial review & litigation, negative impact 5 developing new policy, designing services on service users and loss of savings. & decision making Failure to comply with equalities duties KSR53 / RE11 Inability to proactively manage resources and performance 3 Data quality of management information 4 KSR52 / RE08 Impact on service delivery to customers One of Merton's key delivery partners or sponsor goes in to administration Supply chain failure 3 KSR51 / RE07 3 Impact of Procurement First phase of improvements to procurement delivered, as per Overview Time taken to deliver procurement & Scrutiny Report from March 12. Phase benefits extends. 2, spend data, category management and savings deliver still to come. 3 3 4 Major disruption in the civic centre causing 6th floor data centre to become unusable 4 4 H&S risk from poor investment in building Corporate manslaughter, negligence suits, facilities / organisational downsizing & poor staff morale, possible strike, poor 5 loss of staff with specialist skills customer service. IT failure leading to unavailability of IT services impacting on organisational service delivery 3 Failure to comply with statutory duty on managing Asbestos Consequences 4 Asbestos compliance officer post vacant Cause KSR50 / RE06 KSR49 / RE02 44 Developing corporate Business Impact on service provision, reputation, Reduced budgets may impact negatively Plan & setting a staff morale & internal & external on service delivery levels balanced budget for customers satisfaction 13/17 & beyond Asbestos Compliance Short Name KSR45 / CG03 Risk No Key strategic Risk Register October 2012 Impact Likelihood 10 12 12 9 9 16 20 12 Risk Score A A A A A R R A J J J J J J J J R AGK J L RAG Directio Statu n of s travel Yvette Stanley Zoe Church Caroline Holland Peter Stone Caroline Holland / Paul Dale Mark Humphries Mark Humphries Adam Viccari Risk Owner Cllr Edith Macauley Cllr Mark Betteridge Cabinet Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Resources service plan Data quality CSO's Procurement Board Business Plan timetable Proposal to use Gifford House as DR site. Fibre links being installed which Business continuity will enable DR arrangements to be Plans and transferred off site to LB Wandsworth, strategies including an additional Carefirst server. Building Condition Various capital and revenue projects Survey linked to address this issue (e.g civic centre Capital Programme windows) TBA References received but candidate withdrew from process due to job being part time only. Secured a short term contractor to carry out pending reviews whilst building a business case to increase the role to full time to attract qualified technical candidate. Action Plan Portfolio (Y/N) / Review Comment regarding review Holder date Appendix 6 Consequences KSR56 / CSF6 Impact on ability to provide statutory services, possibility of undermining the Merton Model, causing additional spend pressures in targeted services. Low staff morale, difficulties in managing the impact of the Workforce Management Strategy. Time and effort required to manage change & meet expectations of members & central government may lead to failures in the management of ongoing operational work. Business Continuity Business rates Premises inspections Savings of £25.791 million savings for Delivery of Savings 2012-15 were identified as part of the Programme 2012-15 MTFS 2012-16. KSR58 / CG08 KSR 59 / CS12 KSR60 / RE14 KSR61 / RE16 Non achievement of any saving would adversely impact on the Authority's ability to balance it's budget in the medium to long term if larger than the contingency. 3 2 4 Statutory inspections not being carried Failure to comply with statutory duty to out on engineering plant and other lifting formally inspect lifting equipment; Criminal 4 equipment on council premises offence and harm to service users; 3 2 3 3 3 May impact on council's financial position 4 3 4 2 2 Localism agenda - review of business rates inc. discretionary reliefs Business Continuity and Business Impact Reduced ability to recover from major Analysis forms out of date disaster Agency staff 45 KSR57 / HR15 Additional rights given to Agency Workers introduces additional costs & failure to Use of agency staff following changes to adhere to & comply with new regulations employment rights could bring legal challenge & adverse reputational impact. Uncertainty regarding changes to funding regimes & external grants, including government review of DSG, Acadamies CS&F funding funding & future reductions in EIG. changes, budget Requirement to make significant savings savings & resource over the next 3-4 years. Need to balance management competing demands at a time of contracting resources & extensive change. Failure to deliver strategic priorities. Loss of financial and partnership physical Closure of Safer Merton, and fragmented resources delivery of statutory services. Cause Safer Merton Funding Short Name KSR 54 / ER39p Risk No Key strategic Risk Register October 2012 Impact Likelihood 6 16 6 6 12 6 12 Risk Score A R A A A A A J J J J J J J R AGK J L RAG Directio Statu n of s travel Caroline Holland Richard Williams David Keppler Adam Viccari Marissa Bartlett DMT & CS Resources Annalise Elliott Risk Owner Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllrs Maxi Martin and Martin Whelton Cllr Edith Macauley MTFS Schools Insurance SLA Customer services service plan Review of BCs & BIAs underway. Business continuity Reported to GP committee in Sept. Plans and and linked to DR plans with I&T. strategies Challenge meeting underway to be completed in April 13. Yes Report setting out risks & mitigation agreed by CMT on 23.8.11. Guidance produced for managers & regular reviews at DMTs. Psned and usage subject to monthly CMT review via HR metrics Monitor government proposals consultation response & implications fed into budget and MTFS. Budget savings to be identified & analysed for impact including EIA, TOM & service planning work. All CSF service plans. Action Plan Portfolio (Y/N) / Review Comment regarding review Holder date Appendix 6 Trinity project Loss of income Short Name Partnership risks Consequences Failure of Trinity project 46 Recommissioin Likely reduction in contracting KSR62 / g Early with local third sector leads to CSF 9 Intervention & reputational & political risk. Prevention Destabilisation of the Local Strategic Partnership & Children's Trust Board partnership arrangments. May affect the councils expenditure process Impact on HR management of staff & payroll issues Departmental budgets will not be Current financial climate. Failure to meet balanced. income targets over next 3 years due to Increased pressure on resources and falling income other budgets Cause New Comprehensive Changes in the government Spending grants allocation Review Emerging risks HR14 / KSR60 KSR008 / ER28 Risk No Key strategic Risk Register October 2012 3 3 5 2 3 5 Impact Likelihood 10 9 15 Risk Score A A R Marissa Bartlett Chris Lee Risk Owner J Paul Ballat Emergin Caroline g Holland J J R AGK J L RAG Directio Statu n of s travel Cllr Maxi Martin Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison Cllr Mark Allison CSP Service Plan More detail expected in December 2012 Trinity project HR service plan - project 2 monitored regularly by DMT and finance meetings Action Plan Portfolio (Y/N) / Review Comment regarding review Holder date Appendix 6 COMMUNITY AND HOUSING DEPARTMENT APPENDIX 7 Ref Comments No. ASC 4 Description of Saving TCES Retail Model (simple equipment) ASC 5 OT catalogue ASC ASC 12 6 CADL's (complex equipment) Transport 2012/13 2012/13 Savings Savings Expected Requirement to year-end £000 £000 32 32 RAG G 186 0 R ASC 7 0% inflation uplift 650 650 ASC 8 Optimise block and spot contracts 300 200 G R ASC 10 Optimise telecare usage 300 9 R ASC 13 Care Funding Calculator + plus high cost Res 200 150 A ASC 19 Monitoring high value (1-to-1) and high cost placements 50 50 ASC 14 De-registration of residential care (Based on 40 not 50) 400 400 G G ASC 17 Optimise use of Shared Lives 350 50 R ASC 18 Restructuring Supporting People 50 50 G ASC ASC ASC ASC MAED LIB Hsg 20 21 22 23 1 1 1 Remodelling Dom Care Staff Savings Reablement Disabled Facilities Grant for adaptations. Staff Savings Direct Provision Increase income from commercial courses and cafe Completion of changes to opening hours, rationalisation of a number of small contracts and increase in income. Includes some elements of capital rationalisation on Media Fund. 1,250 100 30 201 30 84 Deletion of funding to Age Concern for community gardening service. 37 Total Community and Housing Savings 2012-2013 1,250 100 30 201 30 84 R /A Included in Forecast Over/Underspend ? Y/N G G G G G CADLS: The savings target for 2012-13 of £32k has been achieved. There are still a number of issues that need to be resolved with LB Croydon IPH, and these are being progressed through the ICES Board. This project is likely to over-achieve . There continues to be a challenge around taxi expenditure, as the re-tendered routes are not yielding savings as required. A0-S indicates this element will continue to be monitored, and a review will be conducted once all taxi routes are re-tendered. A timeframe needs to be confirmed. Consultation around proposed route changes for day service and self drive services continues. Work has commenced on revising the Transport policy and will continue through to September. We are still on track to achieve the target for 2012-13. As a result of re-negotiation of block and spot rates with CCHT and Lifestyle, indicative savings for the second half of the current financial year are circa £200k. This figure will be confirmed over the coming month. The Award report for the new Care Home Framework (which will deliver the move from block contracts) will go to Cabinet in December 2012. The Tender process will commence mid September. There is a high risk this project will not achieve the targeted level of savings for 2012-13, as any savings related to the introduction of the framework will only be yielded over the last quarter in the current financial year. The savings achieved to date remains at £9.4k, as the savings of circa £35k for the introduction of assisted technologies reported in June has already been recorded as part of the proposals received from Choice Support as part of the contract re-negotiation process for the 'De-registration' project (ASC14) below. The Consultants report has been received. SW has proposed that the division works together in taking this project forward. This project will not achieve the targeted level of savings for 2012-13. Timeframes for protocol familiarisation training will be revised once the go live date for the Brokerage function in Commissioning has been established. In the meantime ten reviews have taken place, additional savings of circa £44.8k have been confirmed through the CFC process. The outcome of further CFC negotiations awaited. Customer reviews continue to generate savings. This project is likely to over-achieve its savings target The savings of circa £372k to date are due to contract re-negotiation with the Providers. Included in the savings figure is £35k associated with the introduction of assisted technologies resulting from three of the reviewed customers. An amount of circa £56k p.a that LBM will incur from importing a LB Wandsworth customer under OR has been deducted from the savings figure. The registration with CQC has been completed. An additional carer has been selected at panel on 17 July. The background processes including the development of a service specification, are being progressed ahead of the pilot. There is a risk however, that if there are compatability issues between customers and carers, this will impact on the number of customers available for the pilot. A meeting between Commissioning and MH is scheduled to look specifically at the review of Supporting People contracts. Once this meeting has taken place the project plan will be revised. It is envisaged that this project will achieve at least an additional £16k savings in 2012-13, surpassing the original target by at least £20k. Need to monitor spend on homecare to ensure savings achieved. Taken from budgets already Taken from budgets already Taken from budgets already Taken from budgets already G Taken from budgets already 37 G 4,250 3,323 Savings proposals relating to reviews of Ordinary Residence of cleints scheduled for 2013-14, but the process has been bought forward to 2012-13. It is estimated that £470k savings will be achieved Page 1 of 5 47 CORPORATE SERVICES DEPARTMENT SAVINGS APPENDIX 7 2012/13 Type of Savings Saving Requirement (see key) £000 2012/13 Savings Expected to yearend £000 RAG Ref Description of Saving Customer Services - Revenues and Benenfits CS1 Reduction in postage budget SNS1 30 30 G CS2 Reduction in building work budget SNS1 10 10 G SS1 SNS1 7 5 7 5 G G SS1 19 5 R SS2 45 45 G SS1 70 70 G SS1 SS2 31 40 31 40 G G SS2 20 20 G SS1 SS1 SNS2 28 21 10 28 21 10 G G G SI2 32 32 G CS3 Reduction in recruitment budget Reduction in agency staff and translation budgets Customer Services - Business Rates CS5 Reduction of Valuation Assistant post CS4 Comments R /A Included in Forecast Over/Under spend? Y/N The post has been deleted but due to a fall in business rate collection there is an overtime cost on improving collections and reviewing processes. Customer Services - Benefits CS6 CS8 CS10 CS11 CS14 CS15 CS16 CS17 CS18 CS19 CS20 CS21 CS23 CS24 CS25 CS26 CS27 CS28 Reduce benefits officer posts by 1.5 FTE Customer Services - Bailiff Reduction of 1 FTE bailiff post and 0.4 FTE Admin Officer Customer Services - Council Tax Collection Reduce Revenue Officers by 1FTE. Delete one Manager post. Customer Services - Support Team Reduce system support officers by 0.5FTE Customer Service - Merton Link Reduction of 1 FTE arising from CRM Reduction of 1 FTE arising from introduction of menu option on switchboard Reduction in level of cleaning in public areas Customer Service - Registrars Net impact of increased demand for weddings Customer Service - Translation Service Increase in income Infrastructure & Transactions - IT Service Delivery Deletion/reduction of various budgets Deletion of training budget for specialised IT Reduction/deletion of various budgets Reduction/deletion of various budgets Reduction arising from consolidation of budgets Reduction in budgets Reduction in budget due to cancellation/ consolidation of support and maintenance contracts Reduction due to consolidation of maintenance contracts CS29 Reduction in leasing costs for the Corporate Printing Strategy Infrastructure & Transactions - Facilities Management Reduction of 2 FTE's (Facilities Technical Manager + Technical Administration Officers post). CS30 CS31 CS32 CS33 CS34 CS35 CS36 CS37 CS38 CS39 CS40 CS41 Change Energy Administration officer post to be self financing made self financing Reduce 1 FTE Postal & Scanning Assistant Restructure of Building Services & Security Team (delete Shift Team Leaders Posts) Reduction of number of vans Close Civic Centre on Saturdays (Contractual Overtime-Security) E02221-AA03 Councillor Courier Run - reduce to 1 visit per week from 2 Introduce a charge for the Archive Service Facility Savings on Print Room copy equipment Close Worsfold House and relocate service to Civic Centre Close the YOT Office in Athena House and relocate the service to Civic Centre Infrastructure & Transactions Transactional Services Delete 1 vacant Assistant Vendor Maintenance Officer post (part) CS42 Delete 1 Transactional Officer Post (compulsory redundancy) CS43 Recovery of overpayments and other VAT recovery Human Resources - Transactions CS45 CS48 CS50 CS53 CS55 Reorganise payroll team, link to i-Trent implementation CS62 CS63 CS64 CS65 CS67 CS69 CS70 CS71 10 10 G 8 21 2 9 30 8 21 2 9 30 G G G G G SP1 SNS2 6 72 6 72 G G SNS2 SS2 30 60 30 60 G G SS1 SS2 SS2 SNS1 SS2 SS2 SI2 SNS1 SPROP SPROP 63 37 23 10 5 63 5 15 50 12 51 63 37 23 10 5 34 5 15 50 12 51 G G G G G A G G G G G SS2 10 SS2 SP1 28 50 10 28 50 G G G 59 0 R SS2 SS2 Human Resources - Business Partners Review of function with integration with Sutton Teams Human Resources - Employee Relations Reduce Senior Management Corporate Governance - Democracy Services Stop overtime payments to Democratic Services Officers Reduce scrutiny support fund Reduction in overtime payments to staff in Mayor's Office CS56 CS57 Reduction in supplies & services inflation CS61 S11 SNS1 SNS2 SNS1 SP1 SP1 Corporate Governance - Information Team Fund direct LLC Staff costs from LLC Income Corporate Governance - Legal Services Restructure of Legal Services following merger with LB Richmond Resources Review of Insurance Arrangements Resources Reduce the Council's contribution to the Local Strategic Partnership. Resources Utilise London Councils Grants Scheme repatriated funding to avoid cut to Strategic Voluntary Sector Funding Energy Procurement Business Improvement Delete Director of Transformation's post Communications, Graphic Design Team Delete the in-house Graphics team Communications Team Delete vacant Communications Assistant post. SS2 40 10 A SS2 40 40 G SS2 SNS1 SS2 24 6 24 6 G G 4 20 2 20 A G SI2 49 49 G 127 127 G 300 300 G 24 24 G 280 300 280 300 G G 105 105 G SS2 (28) (28) G SS2 26 26 G 2,414 2,280 Total Corporate Services 2011-2012 Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. C:\Documents and Settings\Susanne Wicks\Desktop\Fin Mon Gp\[Appendix7 savings.xls]CH 48 The full saving is unachievable due to late implementation The saving is not achievable in the current year due to a shortfall in Schools SLA income and higher costs due to paper payslips required A restructure of the HR Business Partner function is being reviewed. Afull year saving is unachievable. Y Y Y Y In-house service ceased ENVIRONMENT & REGENERATION SAVINGS Ref ER01 Parks, Greenspaces & Cemeteries 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) ER04 Leisure & Culture 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) ER05 Leisure & Culture 1) 2) 3) 4) ER07 ER13 Development & 1) Building Control Parking Services 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) ER14 ER15 ER17 ER18 ER20 Parking Services 1) Street Cleansing 2) Waste Management Waste Management ER22 ER24 Staffing reductions, including a cemetery supervisor (which would leave 1 supervisor covering both LBM and Merton & Sutton cemetery teams) and the Wimbledon Park Development Manager which is a fixed term contract that will not be renewed. Increases in fees and charges will be in the form of a 5% increase in sport booking fees and an 20% increase in cemetery Reducing supplies, services and utilities costs and procuring more effectively. Increased tenancy income will be made by letting 5 parks properties on the open market. By encouraging self management of some allotment sites or increasing charges by 80%, there will be a saving of 17.5k and .A reduction in grant to Mitcham Common Conservators of 10k pa [out of £60k] is included. Reductions in supplies & services budgets. Reduction in 0.2 fte of staff. Increased income at Morden Assembly Hall and the Watersports Centre. Service reduction of approx 15% less grant per annum in each of the next three years to Polka and Attic Theatres. Removal of small Olympics budget after 2012 games. Transfer of Merton Hall to South Wimbledon Community Association linked to schools expansion programme and transfer of a 0.5 fte officer to support the Allotment Service to Greenspaces to be self-financing. Delete 3 fte Leisure & Arts Development Officers leaving one Development Officer only to do commercial work self-funding the post. Use £100k to commission some reduced arts and leisure development function. Identify alternative funding for or do not take part in London Youth Games. Delete post of Leisure & Business Projects Officer (0.7 fte). Increase income through installation of multi use games area to rear of Canons Leisure Centre to provide additional provision for The Government are proposing changes to the current charging model for DC. This would mean that the council will be able to set its own fees (levels are currently prescribed) in order to recover the full cost of delivering a number of services in this area, although it will not be able to make a profit. Increase in income for Hartfield Road Bus Lane. Reduce lost cases at PATAS. Eliminate part payments of PCN's. Reduce PCN cancellations. Improve management of CEO performance to generate efficiencies. Reduce CEO absenteeism. CPZ expansion based upon the current demand for zones that will go live in 2012. New Expenditure initiatives organisational restructure remaining full year effect. Enforcement of moving traffic offences. Graffiti Removal – This is a very small service:143k in total. The workload is somewhat seasonal and it is proposed to change working practices in this area to focus when need is greatest. This will result in approx 50% saving 3) Restructure and reduction of staffing in the enforcement team 1) Reductions in landfill tonnage and anticipated Slwp contract cost 2) 3) 4) Ceasing compensation payments to Sutton agreed as in the overall Slwp financial interest Net of £691,000 Landfil Tax etc. Reduction in Slwp contract dry recycling handling rate per tonne 5) 6) Contract renegotiations for Slwp HRRCs Contract management of Garth Road Waste Transfer Station 7) Staff saving 12) Introduction of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system leading to reduction in staffing 1) Introduction of 6 day working week for refuse, recycling and food collection from Oct 2012 Traffic & Highways 1) Introduce Streetworks Permitting Scheme – Organisations undertaking works on the highways will be charged a fee.This saving recognises that some existing costs can be absorbed within the fee charging arrangements 2) Income from fixed penalty notices (FPN’s) in relation to skips, hoardings and scaffolding and through access bar markings 3) Savings on energy (£50k) and service changes associated with the existing Street Lighting Contract (£22k) 4) Potential Savings against final year of existing Highway Maintenance & Improvement contract Potential 10% saving in Revenue budget from re-procurement of Highway Works and Services Contract – Potential savings will only be known following Financial Evaluation of potential service providers- To be confirmed in February 2012 (10% of the remaining Revenue works budget associated with this contract£1m) 15% reduction in staffing Reduction in Footway Maintenance budget (Revenue) Reduction in Street Furniture Budget Reduction in ‘Ditching/Watercourses’ budget Reduction in Street Lighting budget (Revenue) Reduction in ‘Walksheet’ budget – Highway Safety Inspection Works A further 15% reduction in staffing 5) ER21 Traffic & Highways 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Traffic & Highways 1) Transport APPENDIX 7 2012/13 Savings Requireme nt £000 2012/13 Savings Expected to year-end £000 RAG 459 285 R Base budgets were reduced, but income related savings not expected to be fully achieved 35 35 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. 10 10 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. Description of saving Service 1) Make changes to staffing structure to merge and change some work responsibilities, involving the deletion of one post plus ceasing the payment of contractual overtime. Total E&R Department Savings for 2012-2015 Comments 300 0 R The Government has delayed this proposal and no agreement has been made as to when it might be announced. Underspends elsewhere within the department are offsetting this saving in the shortterm, whilst other savings proposals are currently being identified in case this saving is not implemented. 720 720 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. 400 400 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. 120 120 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. 219 219 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. 271 0 R The Head of Street Scene and Waste is currently drawing up alternative proposals to meet this saving. 185 145 A There will be a delay in the introduction of the London Permit Scheme due to a delay in the approval from the Department for Transport. At this stage, it is estimated that the delay will be approximately three months, meaning that the section will only receive three months of related income rather than the expected six. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. 467 467 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. 246 246 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. 129 41 R The removal of the contractual overtime element of this saving was not implemented. Explanations are being sought as the reasons for this. 3,561 2,688 49 R /A Included in Forecast Over/Unders pend? Y/N Y Y CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES DEPARTMENT SAVINGS APPENDIX 7 2012/13 Ref Description of Saving CSF01 CSF Early Years and Children’s Centres 2012/13 Savings Savings Expected to Requirement year-end £000 £000 RAG Comments R /A Included in Forecast Over/Und erspend? Y/N Reduction in commissioning budget and bringing in house of a service CSF02 CSF Early Years and Children’s Centres 25 25 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N Reduction in provision of CPD (Professional Development/training) and establishing some charges for CPD/services CSF03 CSF Early Years and Children’s Centres 48 48 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 6 6 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 128 128 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N Restructuring of internal teams to reduce posts and streamline management. CSF07 Area Based Grant 100 100 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N Reduce management layer in the business support team. CSF09 CSF Children’s Social Care 30 30 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N Reduce level of expenses available to Fostering and Adoption Panel members – may seek as a combination of shared panels cross borough or reduced numbers of panels alongside reduced levels of payment to panel members. CSF10 CSF Children’s Social Care 20 20 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N Reduce the available daycare budget for children currently used to fund childminding places, after school and breakfast clubs etc. CSF12 CSF Children’s Social Care Team Manager post in the Court Assessment Team. 20 20 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 47 47 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 30 30 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as t f thl b d t t l N 10 10 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 50 42 A Delay in redundancy caused an underachievemnt of saving for 2012/13 only. The overspend resulting from this is included in monthly budget monitoring. Y 50 50 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 70 70 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 30 30 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 14 14 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N Increase fees at Lavender CC CSF04 CSF Early Years and Children’s Centres Back office and service efficiencies. CSF05 CSF Early Years and Children’s Centres CSF13 CSF Children’s Social Care Reduce the budget available for commissioning expert CSF16 CSF Children’s Social Care Reduce the travel budget available for parents whose children are in care. CSF17 CSF School Standards and Quality Deletion of post in SSQ. CSF18 CSF School Standards and Quality Increase in income generation from CPD (Professional development/training for teachers/school staff) and ICT buy back CSF20 CSF SEND Integrated Service Deletion of management post from SEND integrated service CSF22 CSF Contracts, Procurement and School Additional capitalisation of capital project management staffing CSF26 CSF Youth Inclusion Reduce Youth Service Training budget used to provide training to youth workers in Merton and some supplies and services. CSF27 CSF Youth Inclusion 50 CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES DEPARTMENT SAVINGS APPENDIX 7 2012/13 Ref Description of Saving Use the Hospital tuition budget (DSG) currently used to fund education provision for children and young people who are in hospital to continue funding the budget reduction in the Education Welfare Team. CSF30 CSF Youth Inclusion The Youth Service Manager post is proposed to becomes half time from December 2012. This would involve a redundancy. CSF34 CSF Commissioning Function and Commissioning Reduce ex LSC commissioning capacity for post 16 education and training CSF36 CSF Commissioning Function and Commissioning Reduce expenditure on LAC and SEN placements through implementation of Access to Resources model. CSF39 CSF SEN Transport Implement new transport policy from April 2012 Total Children, Schools & Families Savings 2010 2012/13 Savings Savings Expected to Requirement year-end £000 £000 60 60 RAG G Comments Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. R /A Included in Forecast Over/Und erspend? Y/N N 15 15 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 100 100 A Delay in redundancy caused an underachievemnt of saving for 2012/13 only. The overspend resulting from this is included in monthly budget monitoring. Y 100 100 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 50 50 G Base budgets were reduced. Monitored as part of monthly budgetary control. N 1,003 995 51 APPENDIX 8 The following charts show the forecast year end variance by department with a comparison for 2011/12: Corporate Services 3,500 3,000 2,500 £'000 11/12 Variance 2,000 12/13 Variance 1,500 1,000 500 0 February March February March January December November October September August July June May Children, Schools and Families 800 600 400 200 (800) (1,000) (1,200) (1,400) 52 January (600) December (400) November October September August July (200) June May £'000 0 11/12 Variance 12/13 Variance Adult Social Care 0 (500) £'000 (1,000) 11/12 Variance (1,500) 12/13 Variance (2,000) (2,500) (3,000) March February January December November October September August July June May (3,500) Libraries & Adult Education 140 120 100 11/12 Variance £'000 12/13 Variance 80 60 40 20 0 March February January December November October September August July June May 53 Housing General Fund 0 (50) (100) (150) £'000 11/12 Variance 12/13 Variance (200) (250) (300) March February January December November October September August July June May (350) (400) (450) Environment and Regeneration 500 0 March February January December November October September August July June May (500) 11/12 Variance £'000 12/13 Variance (1,000) (1,500) (2,000) (2,500) (3,000) 54 Balance at Movement in 31/3/12 year £'000 £'000 13,975 33,865 (1,561) 47,840 (1,561) 6,319 1,710 (83) 12,005 67,875 (1,644) 15,199 3,635 18,834 86,709 (1,644) Reserves 2012/13 General Fund Reserve (including HRA) Earmarked Reserves Total Available General Fund revenue Add reserves for future use towards Budget Add DSG reserve for Schools Add Schools own reserves Revenue Reserves Capital Receipts Capital Grants Capital Reserves as per Council's accounts Earmarked Reserves breakdown Anticipated Movement to Year End £'000 (4,530) (4,530) 6,713 (277) 1,906 6,222 (1,339) 4,883 6,789 Forecast balance at 31/3/13 £'000 13,975 27,774 41,749 13,032 1,350 12,005 68,137 21,421 2,296 23,717 91,854 (215) 485 (2,052) (198) (172) (278) (225) (308) (339) (195) (117) (916) (4,530) 7,820 (1,107) 6,713 (277) 1,906 7,159 5,646 2,322 1,750 1,048 1,078 996 841 850 282 232 1,192 182 225 200 8 143 3,620 27,774 7,820 28 5,184 13,032 1,350 42,156 £000 7,703 5,161 2,322 2,052 2,000 1,656 1,250 996 841 850 560 515 1,500 431 339 225 200 195 125 143 4,801 33,865 28 6,291 6,319 1,710 41,894 Outstanding Council Programme Board Reserve Schools PFI Fund Insurance Reserve Closing the budget gap Repairs & Renewal Fund Performance Reward Grant Pension Fund additional contribution Community Care Reserve Energy renewable reserve Local Land Charges Reserve LABGI Reserve Schools Reserve Apprenticeships Corporate Services reserve Merton Business Investment Fund Waste & Recycling Reserve ICES Reserve E&R Partnerships Wimbledon Tennis Courts Renewal Fund Other Grants and contributions Sub Total For use in future years for budget VAT Reserve Revenue Reserves for Capital / Revenuisation Total for future use in budget DSG Reserve Net Total Adjusted position following final audit C:\Documents and Settings\Susanne Wicks\Desktop\Fin Mon Gp\[Appendix 9.xls]reserves table 55 (329) (250) (410) (58) (249) (265) (1,561) (83) (1,644)